This blog is intended as a resource for professionals that are responsible for the long-term planning of a website (How to find out if you a Web Strategist at your company). While not a Web Design blog, web strategists need to make decisions, dictate budget, or approve web design projects. A client recently asked me for some resources for Web redesign for their website, well actually, they wanted to know of some firms that do this, I have started a voluntary list, but realize there’s quite a few steps that occur before and after dealing with a web design services company.

A Comparison of various Web Design Processes:
It’s interesting to note the differences in Web Design process (which is arguably different from Software Design) from a variety of different industries and focuses.

1. Know what you’re doing
2. Know what the site needs to do
3. Know what the site’s visitors want
4. Get a good picture of the personality and style of the web site
5. Sketch out highly successful scenarios
6. Organise views into a site map
7. Sketch the essential features & look
8. Map your visitors’ attention
9. Arrange the visual elements to work together

Step 3–Visual design and testing: creating, confirming, and handing off

Step 4–Production and QA: prepping, building, and testing

Step 5–Launch and beyond: delivery, launch, and maintenance

Analysis
Most of these processes have a common theme that are broken down to Design, Production. A few of these processes don’t include the analysis before any work is done, while some have various stages of design mockups. Some of these processes don’t include post launch activity, such as testing or evaluation.

Of course, every process depends on the project at hand, however this is a good start to understand some common methods.